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Rahul Sarpeshkar

Thomas E. Kurtz Professor

Professor of Physics

Professor Sarpeshkar's interdisciplinary research uses analog circuits and analog computation as a universal language to design advanced quantum, bio-molecular, and nano-electronic circuits and systems, from atom to living cell. These systems are experimentally implemented in living synthetic microbial DNA-RNA-protein circuits in his wet lab, and in nano-electronic supercomputing chips that simulate biological and quantum computation in his dry lab. They also aid in the design of novel superconducting or NMR dynamical systems. Many common circuit themes in analog, physical, and biological computation include noise and thermodynamics, fault tolerance, feedback control, back action and loading, entanglement and correlation, precision measurement, nonlinear dynamics, robustness-efficiency tradeoffs, scalability, and hybrid quantum-classical operation. Professor Sarpeshkar recently filed four important patents on quantum computation with analog circuits and has just been elected to the National Academy of Inventors.

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Professor Sarpeshkar is Dartmouth's inaugural Thomas E. Kurtz Professor and Chair of the Neukom Computational Science Cluster. He is a Professor of Physics, Engineering, Microbiology & Immunology, and Physiology & Neurobiology. His fundamental work has applications in quantum computation and circuit design, medicine, biotechnology, bio-inspired and ultra-energy-efficient systems. He has published 137 research articles, holds 37 patents, and ​has authored a leading textbook on analog and bioelectronic computation. Prior to his joining Dartmouth, he was a tenured and award-winning professor at MIT.

R. Sarpeshkar, “Ultra Low Power Bio-medical and Bio-inspired Systems,” in Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2011 Symposium, pp. 137-144, National Academy of Engineering, National Academies Press, 2012.

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